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For this week’s Medieval Romance Monday we are featuring the fun Elemental Series written by Elizabeth Rose.  Here is what Elizabeth has to say about her series:

My medieval Elemental Series is also paranormal and was a lot of fun to write. Four women who are elementals and also friends have been separated through the years and one by one reunite.

Each of the women have fae and well as human blood running through their veins. This gives them each some special powers which of course brings intrigue as well as tension between them and their heroes.

For example, in The Dragon and the Dreamwalker, Book 1: Fire – we meet Brynn-Riletta, an elemental who gets her strength from fire, but water is her weakness and can kill her. She has the ability to not only bring forth fire at her command, but to leave her body in her sleeping state and dreamwalk. This makes for some very interesting out-of-body love scenes with Brynn and Drake Pendragon, the infamous warrior who is known throughout the land.

In The Duke and the Dryad, Book 2: Earth – we are introduced to Rae-Nyst, an elemental who gets her strength from the earth, but fire is what can destroy her. She has all the elements of nature at her command and can also move things with her mind. However, since she is part human this latter ability is unstable. She is taken by Duke the Destroyer, Odwolfe, ‘Wolfe’ of Manterra and brought back as his servant after the druids sacrifice his prize bull.

The Sword and the Sylph, Book 3: Air – finds us with Portia-Maer, an elemental who can control the elements of air and the weather with a mere flick of her wrist, but being trapped within the earth is what can steal her power and energy from her. She also has the ability to turn invisible and heal with just a kiss. When Sir Braden is sent to catch a spy that just happens to be her, two sides come into battle and decisions between love and loyalty must be made.

The last book in the series, The Sheik and the Siren, Book 4: Water – finds the hero and son of a sheik, Lord Asad, or Ace, tied to the mast of his ship sailing through Death’s Door trying to be the only man to ever hear the song of the siren and live to tell about it. And our heroine, Ebba-Tyne is an elemental of the water and can command the sea and all within it. However, the hot dessert air is what can take her life. Ebba also has the ability to read minds and can communicate with the dolphins by mind power alone. And when she finds herself in the land of sand and sheiks, her very life is threatened.

Each of the women in this series is strong and independent and of course feisty, like all my heroines. And the heroes of the series are dark and dangerous and of course tortured whether it be physically or mentally, as I always like to give them a challenge.

I hope you enjoy my Elemental Series as much as I enjoyed creating it. Get lost in the magic and passion of unique heroines, and heroes who are out to redeem themselves in these medieval times.

Elizabeth Rose

You can read sample excerpts from each book right here on Medieval Romances, as well as find links to purchase them on Amazon and Smashwords.

Enjoy!

For this week’s Medieval Romance Monday, we are featuring Lord of the Blade by Elizabeth Rose.  The author shared this story with us:

Lord of the Blade will always be special to me, as it was my first ‘baby’ so to speak. I wrote it years ago, being the first medieval romance – actually, the first romance – I ever wrote.

I have always loved anything medieval, with my all-time favorite movie being Lady Hawk. That movie had all the elements I crave – medieval, paranormal (shapeshifting) and of course romance.

I wanted the heroine in Lord of the Blade to be the lord’s servant because I knew how much fun I could have writing that scenario. But once I started, I got so involved in the characters that I decided my hero, Lord Corbett Blake, was a man I wanted to see more of. (So did my heroine, Devon, but that’s beside the point.)

Since he was all alone with no parents, and even his friend the sorcerer missing, I decided to include a few siblings that he could discover in future books. That’s where his sister, Wren, comes in with the second book of the series, Lady Renegade. She has been missing since the age of three, but Corbett does remember her. Her story is complex, but she has been blinded by a marcher lord and leads a band of renegade women. And I have to admit I fell in love with the hero in this story, the Scotsman, Storm MacKeefe. (I do believe you’ll be seeing some of his clan members in upcoming novels.)

Corbett’s mother has died birthing his twin brother and sister. He believes them to have been stolen by the nursemaid and died at sea. That is only partially correct, as we see in the third book of the series, Lord of Illusion.

Madoc ap Powell is Corbett’s long lost brother but neither of them know it. He has been raised as a thief by the disowned wife of a pirate. The heroine, Abigail of Blackmore, is a lady on the run from marrying the evil lord of Shrewsbury. She takes up with the thief, not knowing he plans on bringing her right to the place she is running from – Shrewsbury.

In the fourth book of the series, Lady of the Mist, we see Madoc’s twin sister, Echo. She has been raised by an infamous pirate as the son he never had. The hero, Garrett, is the brother of Abigail and also a baron of the Cinque Ports. He has sworn allegiance to keep the channel safe, and when he encounters Echo’s pirate ship, both their lives take a drastic turn.

Four siblings all with fascinating tales of their own are brought back together in the Legacy of the Blade Series. Each book can stand alone, but characters from the other books are brought in at the beginning and the end. This enables you to see what has happened in their lives, but it may ruin a surprise or two, so I suggest to read them in order if you can.

Please visit my website at elizabethrosenovels.com to read excerpts from each of the books. And thank you once again for your wonderful reviews and support! Watch my website, as the second book in my Elemental Series, The Duke and the Dryad will be released sometime in June, 2013. This is also a medieval, with paranormal elements included.

You can read more about Lord of the Blade right here on Medieval Romances.